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Against Scanlon's Theory of the Strength of Practical Reasons [PDF]

, 2015
We often say that one reason is stronger, or weightier, than another. These are metaphors. What does normative strength or weight really consist in? Scanlon (2014) offers a novel answer to this question.
Sampson, Eric
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A Bayesian Account of Quantum Histories

, 2005
We investigate whether quantum history theories can be consistent with Bayesian reasoning and whether such an analysis helps clarify the interpretation of such theories.
Aerts, Anastopoulos, Bohr, Caticha, Cox, Davies, Einstein, Goldstein, Griffiths, Griffiths, Griffiths, Hartle, Isham, Isham, Isham, Isham, Jaynes, Kent, Kraus, Mana, Marlow, Omnés, Rudolph, Stapp, Thomas Marlow   +24 more
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Perfects, resultatives and auxiliaries in early English [PDF]

, 2007
In this paper, we will argue for a novel analysis of the auxiliary alternation in Early English, its development and subsequent loss which has broader consequences for the way that auxiliary selection is looked at cross-linguistically.
Alexiadou, Artemis, McFadden, Thomas
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Context-Indexed Counterfactuals

Studia Semiotyczne, 2022
It is commonly believed that the role of context cannot be ignored in the analysis of conditionals, and counterfactuals in particular. On truth conditional accounts involving possible worlds semantics, conditionals have been analysed as expressions of ...
Mariusz Popieluch
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Examination of Molinism [PDF]

, 2017
What is the driving force behind salvation? Is it God’s sovereign will, enacting His efficacious grace upon the heart of man? Or is it the free will of man himself, choosing to accept the grace that has been extended to him?
Steele, Olivia Grey
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Patterns, Information, and Causation [PDF]

, 2017
This paper articulates an account of causation as a collection of information-theoretic relationships between patterns instantiated in the causal nexus. I draw on Dennett’s account of real patterns to characterize potential causal relata as patterns with
Andersen, Holly
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What Are the Odds that Everyone is Depraved? [PDF]

, 2020
Why does God allow evil? One hypothesis is that God desires the existence and activity of free creatures but He was unable to create a world with such creatures and such activity without also allowing evil. If Molinism is true, what probability should be
Hill, Scott
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Evaluating the Usefulness of Counterfactual Explanations from Bayesian Networks

Human-Centric Intelligent Systems
Bayesian networks are commonly used for learning with uncertainty and incorporating expert knowledge. However, they are hard to interpret, especially when the network structure is complex.
Raphaela Butz, Arjen Hommersom, Renée Schulz, Hans van Ditmarsch   +3 more
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Pieces of the be perfect in German and older English [PDF]

, 2008
This paper examines the development of periphrastic constructions involving auxiliary "have" and "be" with a past participle in the history of English, on the basis of parsed electronic corpora.
Alexiadou, Artemis, McFadden, Thomas
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Counterfactual Worlds

Journal of Philosophical Logic
Abstract This paper extends Kit Fine’s (2012a, 2012b, 2017a, 2017b, 2017c) truthmaker framework to provide a novel task semantics for tensed counterfactual conditionals. Instead of taking possible worlds to be primitive elements in a model, possible worlds will be defined in terms of states, parthood, tasks, and times where the task relation ...
openaire   +1 more source